My typical week is anywhere from 50 to 60 hours. This year I have a two-two course load. I’m teaching one graduate and one undergraduate course this semester. My graduate course is an intensive reading course, and I spend about eight hours a week preparing the readings and about two hours just before class

preparing for the seminar. I also meet weekly with my graduate students who are working on their theses.

 

This semester, I am updating my undergraduate class on Sensation and Perception, using a multimedia software package showing various phenomena in perception. As the faculty advisor for Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology, I spend several hours a week lining up speakers for the Psi Chi Scholarly Lecture Series. As a member of the Biopsychology Committee, we meet for about an hour and half each week in planning of and bringing on line a new Biopsychology Concentration for psychology. I spend on average an hour a day responding to email from students, faculty, administrators, and applicants to our graduate program. I am the coordinator of the graduate program and have weekly meetings on accreditation of the counseling program, reviewing the progress in establishing a new experimental psychology program, oversight of the comprehensive exam, and reviewing the applications for the graduate program.

 

A significant amount of my time is spent in meetings at the college or university level. I serve on the University's Strategic Planning & Budget Committee and serve on several subcommittees that are involved in developing the strategic plans and the budget for Fayetteville State University. I am the Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate and Chair of the Governance Committee. I am also the Vice Chair of the University Task Force on Comprehensive Evaluation. This committee is charged with revising the faculty evaluation process and aligning the process with our annual review and promotion and tenure.

 

I spend between 15 to 20 hours a week doing literature research on academic issues, then spend time drafting policies to present to the various committees. Finally, I am the Vice Chair of the Faculty Assembly and I am responsible for the migration of the Faculty Assembly web page from a private server to a server at General Administration.

 

In between these activities, I meet with our research group on a weekly basis to review the progress of our research on breathing exercise in the reduction of depression in women who have experienced spousal abuse. On weekends, I set aside time to work on three manuscripts in various stage of completion: a chapter in an edited volume, Extending the Multicultural Debate: Culture in Nonhuman Primates; a journal article on multimodal communication by male mantled howler monkeys (co-author, Clara B. Jones); and a third piece on the effects of breathing vs testimony on depression in battered women (co-author, Susan Franzblau).